Loneliness Quotes

We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

Many Christians suffer from loneliness because they are sitting instead of serving.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.

For too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality.

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

And not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now.

It's a lonely ol' night. Can I put my arms around you?

The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints.

You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.

I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.

Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.

One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel and outdoor work.

In past wars only homes burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites. In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.

Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.